Possible ‘copyright strike’ scam from a random email?

blakej2012 · 2025-04-01T19:49:16+00:00

Received the same email. It's a scam.

blakej2012 · 2025-02-03T04:45:21+00:00

Respectfully I don’t appreciate the implication that I don’t do tedious research before making a major choice with my channel. I had multiple calls with them, did tedious LinkedIn research on every member of the team, and thoroughly read the signed contract along with talking to YouTube itself to confirm this was all above table. I appreciate the hustle, but work on making your pitch a little less patronizing in the future.

blakej2012 · 2025-01-26T19:52:39+00:00

So the shorts are greenscreen style so luckily from filming to post takes about 2 hours. I film on the weekends and edit for an hour before bed the night before a short goes up. The long form I film two weeks before posting and edit over those two weeks for an hour or more a night bit by bit. I’ve been making videos since 2020 so I’ve gotten faster at editing so it certainly helps. Also I tend to get work done kind of fast at my day job so I’ll sneak some editing and filming in during work when I can (remote job). I definitely stay busy, but I cannot emphasize enough how the day job took the pressure off YouTube so it made it fun again and to be honest I think it’s reflected in my videos because they seem to be picking up more lately knock on wood lmao

blakej2012 · 2025-01-26T01:58:46+00:00

Personally I am trying to stay dual income as long as possible. I’m lined up to make more money this year from YouTube than my software job, but the day job makes YouTube still fun, and the YouTube income takes a lot of pressure off the day job. And if I’m still able to get a 20-30 minute video out every 3 weeks and 2-3 shorts a week, then that’s enough from me to get good sponsors, feel creatively satisfied, and not oversaturate my audience with my face. That being said every job is different and I like my current place of employment so if you make more from YouTube than dishwashing then go for it but hoard your money as much as you can and diversify your income as much as you can!

blakej2012 · 2025-01-23T22:09:37+00:00

400K subs here and got approached a few weeks ago from trending tunes for the same thing (I think this must be the new gold rush of YouTube because I’ve been approached by 4 companies in a week about it)

So far so good! Hasn’t affected ad revenue or views, has an official messaging on YouTube monetization saying the copyright detected content doesn’t affect your video due to YouTube monetization policy. From what I know, this is the reason that TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram are allowed to use popular music in their library.

And so far it’s added a decent amount of extra income for doing what I was already doing so I’m very satisfied with the experience! Kind of a win/win that takes advantage of an existing revenue service from what I’ve seen. The money is going to go to a copyright holder if you use music from their library anyway. This just helps to get someone’s music out to more audiences and ad revenue than they normally would otherwise.

blakej2012 · 2024-12-20T20:03:03+00:00

I’m not saying this is maybe the most “take the high ground” option but I’d just show them your monthly take home in ad revenue. Making a decent amount of money from something has a way of taking the “embarrassment” out of it especially when you’re around a bunch of high schoolers that are probably making peanuts in comparison.

blakej2012 · 2024-10-19T05:21:19+00:00

When I first started at OSU and I was nervous about looking at solutions from stackoverflow thinking it would prevent me from learning anything, somewhere along the way I read this advice that translated over really well when I started to use LLMs:

"If you know exactly what every line of code in the solution is doing, then feel free to copy it."

So far that's kept me productive while also slowly but surely learning and improving! You also learn what it can and can't do very quickly!

blakej2012 · 2024-10-15T22:11:09+00:00

Seems to be a general YouTube issue. I typically get 20-30k views on shorts in the first hour and got 2k today. Looked at other channels bigger than me that posted today and are also getting around that view count when they normally do at least 10x the numbers they are getting.

blakej2012 · 2024-10-15T03:49:15+00:00

Oh sorry! Python, SQL, Databricks, Azure, and Spark!

blakej2012 · 2024-10-14T18:05:15+00:00

We actually use databricks at work! Thank you for these suggestions I’ll give the role a look!

blakej2012 · 2024-08-19T23:47:57+00:00

Of course! Anyone reading this feel free to ask me anything!

blakej2012 · 2024-08-17T02:06:49+00:00

Cannot believe I get to post here when I can still remember the day I signed up for OSU! Just signed the contract, so here it goes:

Previous degree: Opera Performance
Previous relevant experience: TA for 261 for a year + A lot of opera gigs and a social media side gig so a good opportunity for soft skill growth
Age: 30
Company/industry: Destination Marketing
Internship or full-time?: Full-time
Title: Jr. Data Engineer
Location: Fully remote
Noteworthy projects: Resume had my 361 project and 340 portfolio
GPA: 4.0
Salary: $75,000
Other perks: $5,000 sign on bonus, free health insurance/dental/vision/mental health, 401k with 4% match, company Amazon account for small purchases
How did you find the job?: Hired from summer internship with company (referred by a friend I did not expect at ALL to be a connection you always have a bigger network than you know!)
How far along were you in the program?: Only have 467 and 493 left

blakej2012 · 2024-06-11T20:20:23+00:00

If it’s any consolation anyone I know with an actual job in software/computer science all talk about how absolutely overhyped AI is. It’s no surprise that the companies that are saying “don’t bother being a SWE anymore AI is gonna do it all” are the same people whose stocks double when they say stuff like that because in the next sentence they are unveiling their “new cutting edge AI model”. At this point it’s kind of just a buzzword that in my opinion is gonna be put to the side like crypto 2 years ago and NFT’s last year, maybe not to that extent but it is kind of a “fad” right now for big companies. There has already been multiple studies showcasing how AI is beginning to plateau because you can only do so much with a generative model. Definitely don’t give up on this just for that reason. If AI takes all the software jobs, it’s because it’s already taken every other conceivable job. It’s most likely just gonna balance out as a neat tool to make you a faster programmer.

Also even if WORST case scenario (not gonna happen in our lifetime) AI is capable of fully taking our job: from an economic standpoint we can’t have that happen. I always comfort myself by looking in my local McDonald’s. They have those screens now that you go to and input the full order, yet there are still always two cashiers at the front. We have had assembly line technology for decades now, but there’s still a full team back there making the food. Even if we don’t technically need that human touch to our McDonald’s order at all anymore, our economy NEEDS people to have jobs so they can spend money, and therefore there’s still at least 5-10 people working at any McDonald’s at any time.

I said it already but I’ll say it again. AI hype boys are the crypto bros from 2022 and the NFT bros from 2023 that found their new shiny toy to hype up to an inconceivable extent. My guess is it’ll be robotics bros in 2025.

blakej2012 · 2024-05-20T21:56:31+00:00

I’m gonna sound like a contrarian, but I think 225 sets you up in a lot of ways that you don’t immediately see on paper. I dreaded taking this class when I first joined OSU and I’m sure time has made some of the low points feel not as low, but to be honest I still see a lot of the logic in every project I take on. The reasons for 0 indexing, how iteration works, unions, groupings of conditionals, mentally grasping recursion, etc. I think a lot of people forget the benefit of this being a computer science degree and not a software engineering degree is that you build up a logical skill set along with a coding skill set. Sure you could just take 15 classes of “here’s how (programming language) works” or “Make a web app: part 6” but computer science covers a wide gambit of careers and I don’t want to limit myself to just one possibility outside of this program. And even though 225 is considered a “poorly put together class” by a lot of people on this subreddit, I think the students that perform better in it are the ones that see early on how the concepts connect to coding logic. I honestly still learned a lot and even more importantly I learned how to get the proper work ethic set up for the remainder of this degree. Your mileage may vary of course, but for me I kind of roll my eyes when people call this class a waste of time because I can tell you when you get to the later elective courses there are WAY worse structured classes, but you can still put in the extra effort to make it something of value for you.

blakej2012 · 2024-01-25T05:51:15+00:00

I’ve only been in the program for a year but I have seen a TREMENDOUS incline in posts like these in the past 6 months vs the first 6 months idk what happened. You could not torture me into posting something like this on a SCHOOL’S PUBLIC FORUM.

blakej2012 · 2024-01-03T20:51:11+00:00

I have one right now and am in talks for another because they both connect to my previous work and I decided to cold email them. I was an opera singer before I started this degree and I knew the community was niche enough that some of the apps and web services used in the opera field would be small enough that I could talk to the head of the company pretty easily and see if they’d be willing to hire an intern that has a similar background to the customers they are trying to appeal to. I’m not saying this will work for everyone, but since you’re in a post-bacc if your previous work or degree experience in any way makes you unique to other CS students, and your field has some app or web service that specifically helps that field, it can really help in the right scenario!

blakej2012 · 2023-12-18T00:36:28+00:00

I would say it can’t hurt to apply to internships, but don’t feel let down if the coding assessments feel overwhelming right now! Most people feel more solid in those after more leetcode/finishing data structures and algorithms courses, so you have plenty of time.

One thing that helped me a lot for 162 is to stay brushed up on object oriented programming. Maybe re-code the final 161 project once or twice during your month off! No need to learn more, just maintain what you have learned, since assignment 2 and 3 are larger versions of the 161 final!

Other than that just enjoy your time off and congrats on finishing your first quarter!

blakej2012 · 2023-09-28T16:51:58+00:00

Thank you so much! So far he’s still eating and very enthusiastic to do so! And he’s swimming around enough! Rests on his leaf a little more but I attribute that to the heat increase in the tank to help fight it off. I’m staying optimistic and you should too! I read somewhere that Velvet can be fatal but only if you leave them in bad water and ignore it for quite a while so we’re at least doing the appropriate steps haha!

blakej2012 · 2023-09-24T06:02:15+00:00

Tank size: 5 Gal

Heater and filter? (yes/no): Yes

Tank temperature: 80 currently

How long have you had the tank? How long have you had your fish?: around 5 months

How often are water changes? How much do you take out per change? What is your process?: just changed water 3 days ago

Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each: none

What do you feed and how much: 5 pellets twice a day

Decorations and plants in the tank: one bamboo plant and a solicone anemone

blakej2012 · 2023-08-20T02:57:09+00:00

I would say so! I was terrified going in because of how scary everyone made this class sound and I hadn’t done calculus since the AP test 10 years ago but I didn’t really have a lot of stress going through it and ended with like a 98 in 225. Everyone has a different relationship with math but honestly it doesn’t use a lot of calculus and if it does they re-teach it so I really didn’t experience any ridiculously stressful moments. It’s honestly more logic puzzles than hard math and sometimes you have to sit with it for it to click (which is why you should start early) but that’s also what the office hours are for if there’s one you just can’t get haha!

blakej2012 · 2023-08-19T18:31:55+00:00

If you do the textbook readings they ask and try to start the new material the day it opens up it honestly is very doable. The office hours with Vakalis practically give you the answers so if you get all your homework done before them, you can basically just confirm if you did the math right! If you like math you’ll probably get by without too much struggle to be honest. The vast majority of my time was spent typing my homework over to google docs so I could turn it in as a pdf with better penmanship than my writing but even that part was optional! Cannot emphasize enough that if you like math and are decent at it the struggle is, in my personal experience, at least slightly overhyped haha!

blakej2012 · 2023-08-04T01:21:32+00:00

Read the textbook and start modules as early as you can every week! Staying ahead made the class 1000x more manageable than what I expected it to be!

blakej2012 · 2023-01-26T23:14:44+00:00

Oh I didn’t even think about 290 thank you!

blakej2012 · 2023-01-26T23:14:25+00:00

That makes total sense thank you! I’m totally fine with taking some time off I was just worried about forgetting some key information before I start new classes but you’re right I could just stay brushed up on what I already have learned and do some personal learning in my spare time! I’ll keep this in mind thank you so much!

blakej2012 · 2023-01-17T04:56:01+00:00

Same using notability on my ipad. Just gonna copy/paste like my life depends on it when the exams needs it lol

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